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Thomas Tuchel wary of physical demands on his England players

  • ‘The tournaments are played after a long season’

  • Head coach preparing for Andorra World Cup qualifier

Thomas Tuchel is determined to find the answer to England’s physical problems after gruelling Premier League campaigns, having noted that the team were “most comfortable” in terms of recent tournaments at the mid-season Qatar World Cup in 2022.

The head coach, who is preparing here for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Andorra, wants to harness the traditional virtues of the English game – namely pace, strength and aggression. But he is aware that searing temperatures await at many of the venues for the finals in the US, Canada and Mexico next summer and, as such, it will be vital to be able to play in different styles.

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© Photograph: Eddie Keogh/The FA/Getty Images

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial recap: accuser testifies over traumatizing balcony incident & more

Fashion designer Bryana “Bana” Bongolan claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly hung her over the railing of his ex Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s high-rise condo balcony in September 2016. “He lifted me up and hung me off the rail,” she alleged on the stand from Manhattan federal court. As the grueling trial continues, Page Six Senior...

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Jos Buttler serves up fireworks as England see off West Indies in first T20

The burden has gone for Jos Buttler. Playing his first Twenty20 international since stepping down from the white-ball captaincy, there was liberation as he struck a 59-ball 96 to set up England’s 22-run win over West Indies.

If there was any glumness for the 34-year-old, it was in missing out on what would have been his first T20I century at home. Nonetheless, Buttler top-scored in a total of 188 before Liam Dawson got to work.

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© Photograph: Lee Smith/Action Images/Reuters

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US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge

Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health records

The US supreme court on Friday permitted the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a key player in Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to the personal information of millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.

At the request of the justice department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information” in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing Doge unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law.

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© Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

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HUD secretary scolds NYCHA over waste, fraud, abuse during tense site visit: ‘Monitoring is not going well’

A top Trump official scolded the city’s public housing agency over “waste” and “fraud” — and took aim at the federal monitors that have failed to clear the “abuse”, at a meeting with New York housing officials in the city Friday. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner issued the scathing rebuke of the New...

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Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador indicted on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people, says Bondi

Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.

In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted the 29-year-old father on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime.

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© Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

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Jannik Sinner sees off defiant Djokovic to set up dream final against Alcaraz

  • World No 1 wins 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) over 38-year-old Serb

  • Italian is on course for third Grand Slam title in a row

Regardless of the tricky surface beneath his feet, the disruptive swirling wind inside Court Philippe-Chatrier or the intimidating résumé of the adversary before him, Jannik Sinner keeps on going. The world No 1 continued to demonstrate his superiority over all challengers at Roland Garros as he closed out a supremely clutch performance against Novak Djokovic, the sixth seed, with a 6-4, 7-5, 7-6 (3) win to reach the final of the French Open for the first time in his career.

Over the past 10 months, Sinner has established a period of total dominance at grand slam tournaments. He has now won 20 straight matches at major tournaments and on Sunday he will attempt to win his third straight major title.

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© Photograph: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty Images

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